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Tusk sees EU 'consensus emerging' on refugee crisis

"For the first time since the beginning of the migration crisis, I can see a European consensus emerging," European Council president Donald Tusk wrote in his letters to EU leaders ahead of Monday's EU informal summit. A "comprehensive strategy" could reduce the flow of migrants "if loyally implemented", he wrote.

Central European countries say they have "nothing to hide" on rule of law issues - while justice commissioner Vera Jourova said they should agree to the Commission's controversial budget plans on rule of law conditionality.

Giovanni Buttarelli, the European data protection supervisor, says the EU-US data sharing pact known as Privacy Shield will play an increasingly minor role given the general data protection regulation.